...make a lot of money.” In the next breath, he pivots to apocalyptic rhetoric about stopping #Iran from destabilizing the world. The problem is that these two claims sit very uneasily together. Oil prices typically rise when geopolitical tensions escalate—especially tensions involving Iran and the Middle East. So celebrating higher oil prices while simultaneously presenting yourself as the defender of global stability sounds almost like satire. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of a hospital ad...